RETIRING MINISTERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25215, 30 May 1945, Page 7

RETIRING MINISTERS

RECEIVED BY KING FAREWELL QATHERINQ LONDON, May 28 The last formality in the dissolution of the Coalition Government was observed when retiring Ministers were received by the King at Buckingham Palace, and they handed in the seals of office, says the Evening Standard. At 15-minute intervals Ministers followed Mr Attlee. who was received first. The day has been a day of farewells in London, when the Ministers and members of their staffs who had worked together throughout the European war parted in order to take up fresh duties | elsewhere. ! After the retiring Ministers had ; handed in their seals of office to the King at Buckingham Palace, the King held a Privy Council, at which Ministers in the "caretaker" Government took their oaths. i Ten minutes before the Privy Couni oil meeting, Mr Ernest Brown, Minister | of Aircraft Production, was received in , audience by the King. During the afternoon, in the Cabinet ; room, Mr Churchill gave a farewell I'party to the Labour and Liberal Ministers who have left his Coalition Government and who will be in Opposition tomorrow when Parliarnentmeets. | A correspondent says it was a jolly gathering, at which members of the now Cabinet laughed and joked with ! their predecessors. Everyone, particularly Mr Churchill, seemed to be in the highest spirits. Tea and coektaita were provided, and most of the ex-Ministers, ns well as new ones of Cabinet rank, were there, i Two additional appointments to Mr I Churchill's new Government are announced They are: — Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Production—Mr John Scott Ma clay i Financial Secretary to the War j Office.—Major Maurice Pethorick

LIBERALS' POLICY FREE TRADE OBJECTIVE (Reed 11.10 p.m.) LONDON, May 20 The Liberal Partv leader, Sir Archibald Sinclair, today announced his i.party's policy for the election. The first ! plank was the most vigorous prosecution j of the war against Japan. I Sir Archibald said the Liberal policy | would be to end trade barriers and : advance toward free trade. It would hr j necessary to keep some economic controls. especially to ensure fair distribution of foofl. housing and other necessities, but the party would keep no coni trols which were not needed for this ! purpose. Sir Archibald said the party favoured private enterprise. He described the Labour Party's nationalisation plans as an anachronism. "FULL EMPLOYMENT" AMERICAN ATTITUDE (Reed. ».au p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, May 2!) The United Stfites delegation has vigorously resumed its fight to drop the slogan "full employment" from the world charter, reports the New York Herald-Tribune's correspondent. Although defeated on this point last week, the United States again objected with even greater insistence that the charter should not go into detailed enumeration of specific goals and should not avow an objective pertaining chiefly to internal affairs. Otherwise it might list freedom of the press, which was not accorded in Russia, or the removal of immigration restrictions on a colour basis, such as existed in Australia. The United States was committed to a system of free enterprise and felt that the charter should not contain a phrase with as contrary a connotation as t.he avowal of full employment. Such an aim might carry the implication that this, or othqr countries, would be obliged to assure full employment by Governmental moans. SABOTAGE CHARGE (Reed. 5.35 p.m.) LONDON. May 28 The Paris radio announces that Admiral De la Borde Marty is on trial charged with sabotaging the French Fleet at Toulon.